An Introduction to Noncommutative Noetherian Rings / Edition 2

by K. R. Goodearl, R. B. Warfield, Jr

Overview

This introduction to noncommutative noetherian rings, accessible to anyone with a basic background in abstract algebra, can be used as a second-year graduate text, or as a self-contained reference. Extensive explanatory material is given, and exercises are integrated throughout. New material includes the basic types of quantum groups.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780521545372
Publisher:	Cambridge University Press
Publication date:	07/12/2004
Series:	London Mathematical Society Student Texts , #61
Edition description:	REV
Pages:	370
Product dimensions:	6.18(w) x 8.86(h) x 0.91(d)

About the Author

K. R. Goodearl received his Ph.D. in 1971 from the University of Washington. Following an instructorship at the University of Chicago, he spent 19 years at the University of Utah. Since 1991, he has been a professor of mathematics at the University of California at Santa Barbara.

R. B. Warfield Jr. received his Ph.D. in 1967 from Harvard University. Following a postdoctoral year at New Mexico State University, he joined the mathematics department of the University of Washington, where he was a professor until his death in 1989.

Table of Contents

1. A few Noetherian rings; 2. Skew polynomial rings; 3. Prime ideals; 4. Semisimple modules, Artinian modules, and torsionfree modules; 5. Injective hulls; 6. Semisimple rings of fractions; 7. Modules over semiprime Goldie rings; 8. Bimodules and affiliated prime ideals; 9. Fully bounded rings; 10. Rings and modules of fractions; 11. Artinian quotient rings; 12. Links between prime ideals; 13. The Artin-Rees property; 14. Rings satisfying the second layer condition; 15. Krull dimension; 16. Numbers of generators of modules; 17. Transcendental division algebras.

Editorial Reviews

"Readers of the first edition will notice a number of changes in this edition, including a restrucuring of the topics, many more explicit examples, and an increased emphasis on quantum groups, a subject which has flourished in the decade that has passed since the first edition...This level of explicitness would make large parts of the book accessible even to an undergraduate who has only completed a first course in algebra, although the target audience is primarily at the graduate student level."
MAA Reviews, Darren Glass

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